It feels like we are witnessing miracles when some of our sickest patients survive.
Owen* is a severely malnourished boy with intestinal perforation from typhoid. He was so weak he couldn't even sit up in bed. We fixed the hole in his intestine and closed his abdomen. Unfortunately, his tissue was so weak from malnourishment that his stitches eventually tore through and a week after his surgery the abdominal wound opened up exposing his intestines. 😔We put a vacuum suction dressing on to keep his intestines inside.
With good wound care and nutritional supplementation he slowly improved to where he was sitting up when we came by on rounds.
Here he is a a couple of weeks later- ready to get his wound VAC removed and to be discharged to the nutritional rehabilitation center:
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